Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox are back for a new season of Lewis. Six new episodes of the long-running crime drama will see Whately and Fox reprising their roles as Detectives Robbie Lewis and James Hathaway, alongside Angela Griffin (Mount Pleasant) as Detective Sergeant Lizzie Maddox. > Buy the complete Season 1-8 boxset on Amazon. … >
Full marks to Angela Griffin as DS Maddox when she almost gets away with the line, “It says here under occupation he was a Practicing Alchemist” in the concluding part of ‘Magnum Opus’. Despite the absurdity of the comment she gives it the same lightness of touch that less convoluted police dramas would give to … >
There’s a moment about halfway through the first part of ‘Magnum Opus’, just before the second ad break in fact, where academic Wouter Eisler (played by Stephen Boxer with an extraordinary German accent) confirms that the picture found with the murder victim is an alchemical image. It represents, he explains, “Nigredo… the Blackening… the first … >
Perhaps it’s just a sign of cuts at ITV, but Lewis Season 9’s opening story, ‘One For Sorrow’, has a lower than average body-count. If you only caught the first quarter hour of Episode 1 last week, then you’ve seen all the corpses you’re going to see: the body in the well and the dead … >
The opening titles montage for ‘One for Sorrow’ ends with a dead animal stuffed and returned to the approximation of life, as a masked Magpie is placed by the grave of a squirrel. It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to cynically claim this as an appropriate metaphor for Lewis, the improbable spin-off where a … >
Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox are back for a new season of Lewis next month. ITV commissioned six new episodes of the long-running crime drama earlier this year, with Whately and Fox reprising their roles as Detectives Robbie Lewis and James Hathaway, alongside Angela Griffin (Mount Pleasant) as Detective Sergeant Lizzie Maddox. > Buy the … >
Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox will return for a ninth season of Lewis. ITV has commissioned six new episodes of the long-running crime drama, with Whately and Fox reprising their roles as Detectives Robbie Lewis and James Hathaway. Angela Griffin (Mount Pleasant) will also be back as Detective Sergeant Lizzie Maddox. Season 9 will see … >
ITV’s detective team of Lewis and Hathaway return this autumn for six new episodes of crime drama Lewis. A year and a half after the conclusion of the previous season – which left Robbie Lewis (Kevin Whately) focused on his retirement plans and James Hathaway (Laurence Fox) abandoning the Oxfordshire Police for an uncertain future … >
Robson Green (Being Human) and George Sampson (Britain’s Got Talent) have joined the cast of comedy-drama Mount Pleasant.